On 29 November in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and the President of Madagascar signed a Joint Communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė, attending the international conference of Women Political Leaders in Iceland, met with with President Kersti Kaljulaid of Estonia and President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović of Croatia.

The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether Spain's environmental incentive for coal power plants is in line with EU State aid rules. The Commission has concerns the support has been used to meet EU environmental standards that were in any case mandatory.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė attending the Eastern Partnership Summit had a bilateral conversation with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė attends the fifth Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels.

On 21 November, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the Ambassador of Morocco to Lithuania Khadija Rouissi, who is visiting Vilnius.

On November 20-21 Vice Minister of National Defence Edvinas Kerza and a delegation attended bilateral consultations at the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom. Representatives of the Ministry of National Defence met with Deputy Leader of the House of Lords Earl Howe and Nick Dean, Head of Cyber, Cyber and National Security Capabilities Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK.

Tomorrow, on November 24, President Dalia Grybauskaitė will attend the fifth Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels. The highest-level delegations from all 28 EU member states and six Eastern Partnership countries will take part in the Summit. Belarus will be represented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

On 21 November, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius bid farewell to the outgoing Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Lithuania Hasan Mammadzada.

The Commission will allocate €28 million from Cohesion Policy funds towards regenerating economic activity in the region of Umbria, affected by severe earthquakes, including €5 million to restore the Basilica of San Benedetto in Norcia.